Icelandic Doppelbock
(has 3 batches)
Einstök Ölgerð in Akureyri, Northeastern Region, Iceland 🇮🇸
Brewed at/by: Viking ÖlgerdBock - Doppelbock Winter
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Score
6.74
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This limited-edition winter brew will make its debut in October, but this winter celebration ale is worth the wait. Malted barley and chocolate tones define the traditional style, while the robust aroma and long, mellow finish will make this the perfect companion for your holiday adventures.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Bine & Vine. Pours clear copper with a slight beige/tan head. Aroma of light stone fruits and caramel. Med body. Flavor is roasty malt with some light fruit. It has a hop profile reminiscent of Morland’s Tanner’s Jack. Tho the malt is way roastier. Cute label. Nice flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2013
at 19:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Home from utobeer borough market. Aroma is prunes and sweet cara malt and feet. Dark amber copper colour with a shortish dense cream head. Flavour is sweet nutty caramel with plenty of fruity esters. A touch cloying. Touch of roast in the finish. Semi dry finish. Some warming alcohol presence. First Icelandic tick!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2013
at 14:59
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle, RB Århus tasting @ Christers. Pours dark amber with a offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, nuts, little smoke. Flavor is malt, caramel, oxidation, wood, moldnotes. Medium body, soft carbonation. 030413
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2013
at 08:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Clear dark amber/brown with medium tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, little toffee and a little nutty. Flavour is malt, caramel, medium sweet, little toffee, toasted, little nutty, little smoke and a little bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2013
at 11:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
31st August 2012: Icelandic or should I say ‘Einstok’ tasting evening at a mates house. He’d bought two bottles of four different Einstok brews. All poured carefully into a ‘Straffe Hendrik’ badged chalice. Last beer of the four was a 33cl Bottle of this (best before 10/2012). Dark brown, deep, deep amber coloured body with a thin almost white head on top. The malty nose had chocolate and toffee esters to the fore with caramel arriving later. The taste was also malty sweet, with the same flavours as the aromas except there was a distinct burnt bitterness towards the end of each gulp. Not sure whether it came from hops or the dark chocolate malts? Most enjoyable and the best of the four Icelandic beers I had that night.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2012
at 06:17
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
[Bottle from Beers of Europe] Pours amber brown with a moderate but rapidly diminishing beige head, and a middling amount of thin, prickly fizz. Chocolate up front followed by a bit of granite and some butter and caramel. Then a big hit of sweet, dark rum (mmm, I like rum) which makes the beer taste strong than its true strength. The roasted malt comes through at this point in Horlicks form, with a tiny hint of ash. A few grassy hops escape giving a little dryness, but really this is all about rum and caramel. The mouthfeel is possibly a little cloying, leaving an odd clay-like coating on your tongue. Nevertheless, it’s pretty decent, surprisingly complex, and I do like that rum!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2012
at 14:39
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from thedrinkshop.com. Dark amber color with small white head. Aroma of sweet malt, caramel, toasted bread, yeast, syrup. Surprisingly not so sweet as I thought, it will be. Taste, fruity, bread, caramel. Fruity finish with light bitterness in background. Good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2012
at 12:20